Overcoming Adversity in Academia Stories from Generation X Faculty [Hardcover]

While some contributions are stronger than others, as a whole the book achieves its purpose through the insightful and honest author self-reflections. . . .As a whole, the book presents an appropriate and necessary diversity of experiences [such as] race, gender, sexual orientation, discipline. While some chapters were stronger than others, it was a worthwhile book to read and would be a valuable addition to a post-secondary library.This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.PrefaceElwood Watson1. Only Human: My Experience in Higher EducationMartha Diede2. Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the Joshua GenerationTerrance Tucker3. Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the AcademyDaniel Farr4. Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic CareerAnnemarie Hamlin5. The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of DesegregationAndria J. Woodell6. Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the AcademyDarryl Holloman7. Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in AcademiaDouglas Mikutel8. Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the AcademyAntonio C. Cuyler9. In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic PotentialDavid Prescott-Steed10. Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic JourneyKathleen and George Mollick11. My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professors Story In AppalachiaElwood Watson12. LlӮ